A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about K-pop in Brazil — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. K-pop has an estimated audience of 4,765,075 people in Brazil.
The average K-pop fan in Brazil is 35.0 years old, more female, and lives primarily in São Paulo.
The audience is concentrated in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais.
Top brand affinities include BTS, Creator deity, Day, with strongest over-indexing on BTS (3.14× the country average).
Demographically, the K-pop audience skews more female with an average age of 35.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Creativity.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 27 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical K-pop fan in Brazil is more female, around 35.0 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for BTS.
The key figures that characterise the K-pop profile in Brazil.
66.9% are female, 33.1% are male, average age 35.0.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 66.9% |
| Male | 33.1% |
| Average age | 35.0 |
| Estimated audience size | 4,765,075 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 29% | |
| 20-29 | 24% | |
| 30-39 | 19% | |
| 40-49 | 15% | |
| 50+ | 13% |
of the worldwide K-pop audience comes from Brazil.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| China | 18.1% |
| Japan | 14.0% |
| United States | 13.8% |
Where the K-pop audience in Brazil is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Amapá | ~20K | 1.38× | |
| 02 | Amazonas | ~100K | 1.35× | |
| 03 | Roraima | ~20K | 1.18× | |
| 04 | Pará | ~200K | 1.16× | |
| 05 | Maranhão | ~100K | 1.13× | |
| 06 | Rio Grande do Sul | ~300K | 1.08× | |
| 07 | Pernambuco | ~200K | 1.03× | |
| 08 | Alagoas | ~70K | 1.03× | |
| 09 | Acre | ~20K | 1.03× | |
| 10 | Piauí | ~70K | 1.02× | |
| 11 | Sergipe | ~50K | 1.01× | |
| 12 | Rondônia | ~40K | 1.01× | |
| 13 | São Paulo | ~1M | 0.99× | |
| 14 | Rio de Janeiro | ~400K | 0.97× | |
| 15 | Ceará | ~200K | 0.95× | |
| 16 | Paraíba | ~90K | 0.95× | |
| 17 | Mato Grosso do Sul | ~70K | 0.95× | |
| 18 | Santa Catarina | ~200K | 0.94× | |
| 19 | Rio Grande do Norte | ~70K | 0.94× | |
| 20 | Bahia | ~300K | 0.88× | |
| 21 | Tocantins | ~30K | 0.87× | |
| 22 | Espírito Santo | ~90K | 0.86× | |
| 23 | Paraná | ~200K | 0.85× | |
| 24 | Mato Grosso | ~70K | 0.84× | |
| 25 | Federal District | ~70K | 0.84× | |
| 26 | Minas Gerais | ~400K | 0.83× | |
| 27 | Goiás | ~200K | 0.83× |
The strongest cross-interests of the K-pop audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | BLACKPINK | Music & Radio | 3.39× | ||
| 02 | Korean drama | Movies & TV | 3.27× | ||
| 03 | KPop Demon Hunters | Movies & TV | 3.17× | ||
| 04 | BTS | Music & Radio | 3.14× | ||
| 05 | Messianism | Politics & Society | 2.00× | ||
| 06 | Creator deity | Politics & Society | 1.96× | ||
| 07 | Macaco (band) | Music & Radio | 1.92× | ||
| 08 | Microwave oven | Home & Garden | 1.76× | ||
| 09 | Lindås | Travel & Leisure | 1.70× | ||
| 10 | Humorism | Literature | 1.70× | ||
| 11 | Erlang (programming language) | Technology & Electronics | 1.67× | ||
| 12 | Saudade | Politics & Society | 1.64× | ||
| 13 | Manicure | Beauty & Wellness | 1.61× | ||
| 14 | Wikipedia | Internet & Social Media | 1.58× | ||
| 15 | Kitchen stove | Home & Garden | 1.57× | ||
| 16 | Voice over IP | Technology & Electronics | 1.56× | ||
| 17 | Day | Business & Career | 1.55× | ||
| 18 | Criciúma Esporte Clube | Sports | 1.52× | ||
| 19 | Angel | Politics & Society | 1.52× | ||
| 20 | Maranhão | Travel & Leisure | 1.50× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spirituality | BALANCE | 1.17× | |
| Creativity | OPEN | 1.02× | |
| Tradition | CONSERVATISM | 1.02× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Career Orientation | POWER | 0.56× | |
| Luxury Orientation | PREMIUM | 0.56× | |
| Sustainability | BALANCE | 0.58× |
K-pop has an estimated audience of 4,765,075 people in Brazil, concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
66.9% of K-pop fans are female, 33.1% are male, with an average age of 35.0 years.
K-pop fans show strongest brand affinity for BTS (3.14×), Creator deity (1.96×), and Day (1.55×) over the country average.
K-pop fans in Brazil are most concentrated in São Paulo (reach ~1M), Rio de Janeiro (reach ~400K), and Minas Gerais (reach ~400K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond K-pop itself, the audience over-indexes on Creator deity (1.96×), Day (1.55×), Messianism (2×), and Erlang (programming language) (1.67×) compared to the Brazil average.
Related profiles, rankings and the same audience in other markets.
Audience size is the estimated number of people in Brazil who actively search for K-pop. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Brazil. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
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